On 10 Oct 2003 08:47:32 -0700, (Michael P. Reed)
wrote:

A well worn myth. At best its true only for totalitarian regimes.
You have obviously not read much on the American Revolution, its
causes, or the occurrences of its outbreak. It is quite obvious that,
as I mentioned previously, you are merely parroting what the British
of the day thought and claimed where the "rebellion" "started" by a
small minority of influencial men, and that most "Americans" actually
thought themselves "British" and so were loyal. That was the single
greatest misconception made on the part of the British, and derived
most other British misconceptions. Such as the rebellion was centered
in New England, and so all one had to do was conquer New England and
the rebellion would be crushed. This was the thinking that drove
British strategic planning for the first half of the war.

Strange how after they evacuated Boston in March 1776 (less than a
year after Lexington & Concord) they never came back, and how Howe and
Burgoyne's operations thereafter concentrated on New York, then
Philadelphia. For one who likes to cast aspersions on the knowledge
of others, you don't seem too clued-up yourself.

[snip the usual Painesque cobblers]

Gavin Bailey
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